On September 5, 1944 Allied bombs began to fall from the sky onto the port town of Le Havre, France. The second most important port city in France, according to www.encyclopedia.com, was targeted by the Ally troops and bombed in order to keep the German Army from using the port city as a gateway to an invasion of Great Britain. Many civilians fled the town on foot after the Germans captured the town in 1940, but many others who remained in the town were injured or killed during the bombings. Nearly 5,000 civilians met their deaths during the attack deemed Operation Astonia, nearly 80,000 people lost their homes. (www.worldheritagesite.org) The bombings continued over five days and destroyed 12,500 buildings. Le Havre was only one of the 1,570 cities/towns that were bombed in France during World War II. (en.wikipedia.org) Throughout World War II the town of Le Havre fell victim to 132 Allied bombings. Operation Astonia, described as “the storm of iron and fire” (Clout 1999, p. 187) was the most destructive of the bombings. In addition to …show more content…
Cathedrals and town squares from before World War II can still be found throughout the city. Le Havre today attracts many tourists interested in the historical architecture and cemeteries. The tourism, as well as shipping, oil refining, and manufacturing are the main industries that support the French city today. (/www.encyclopedia.com) These industries have caused the city to grow substantially, but like during the war, the city’s population fluctuates. Le Havre is home to 175,497 residents as of 2010. (http://data.un.org) The people of Le Havre have ensured that the French city will always be one of the largest and most influential cities in the country, and they have always worked hard to make their city great, even before World War
The bomb immediately killed 80,000 people. In the book Unbroken it states “ A week after Louie left Omori sixteen square miles of the city and ten thousands of souls have been burned by the B-29”. All homes were gone burned to the grown in ashes and this all happened it a few minutes. In a few minutes a whole town could be gone and the reason is because an atomic bomb hit there. In the book Unbroken Louis describes the towns saying “Once grand cities were now black stains”. This is implying how there was nothing left of the towns and how it’s all ash. Many people also describe when the bomb hit and said “It just felt like a wave of heat and then it just turned to ash”. Three days after America dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima America dropped the second one on Nagasaki Killing an estimated of 40,000 people and the same thing happened a whole town was gone and incident lives were
On the 6th of August 1945 an American B-29 Bomber plane launched a dangerous atomic bomb called “Little Boy”, in the centre of the city of Hiroshima. The Bombs left 140,000 people dead and another ten thousand died later from the toxic radiation exposure.
Despite the allied bombing of Germany in WWII perhaps appearing to be significant, overall, it was only such to a limited extent. It is possible to analyse the extent to which the bombing was significant in four aspects: economic, morale, international relations and others theatres of war. The extent to which they were significant will be assessed against their respective pre-war expectations. Whilst each dimension are important, I am going to specifically focus on economic and moral because they were the main objectives of the Allies, and directly affected Germany.
Over half of the casualties were in Hiroshima Prefecture because many of the city functions were destroyed by the bomb dropped on August 6.
Fussel focuses on convincing the reader that the number of causalities would have been much greater had the Allies continued the war on the ground. He does this simply by evaluating loss of life in invasions before the bomb and providing the estimates of lives lost in a continued land war. Fussel reminds the reader, “On Okinawa, only weeks before Hiroshima, 123,000
The technological developments that assisted bombing, the impact of bombing on the German economy, the impact of bombing on the German civilian morale and also the effects on the German war effort all help explain why the Allied strategic bombing of Germany during the Second World War was significant to quite a far extent. Each of the following paragraphs will analyse the impacts of the Allied strategic bombing on different aspects of Germany and also what factors assisted the Allied bombing campaign in creating a significant impact on Germany during the Second World War.
Nagasaki and Hiroshima were the cities that got bombed. And because of all these reasons america ended up winning the war also with the aid of allies. Yes innocent people were killed but it was necessary for stopping japan. Many lives were sacrificed and killed during and after the bombing at Pearl Harbor. Hopefully we don't repeat the past and get into another world war that could end in the extinction of the human
lives were ended as a result of this unnatural disaster, most of them civilian. The people
the bulk of the destruction pertaining to innocent civilians. Three days later, the Americans repeated
Docks were wrecked and people were thrown off the docks when bombs hit them. All the damage that happened was devastating and there was lots and lots of smoke after the attack. The smoke lasted for a few days and could be seen from miles away.
On Friday, September 15th, Britain was bombed by a terrorist group in an underground train in London. As a result, 29 people were sent to the hospital for their injuries, but luckily the injuries were not life-threatening. Eight of those 29 people have been discharged from the hospital.
In 1945, two atomic bombs were dropped over Japan on Hiroshima and Nagasaki which resulted in thousands of civilian deaths and a detrimental impact on the environment.
Art is the one thing that bridges the gap between barriers that can range from different languages and cultures to disabilities and mental illnesses. Art has been used for a multitude of reasons like therapy, beautification, protesting,propiganda and so on but the one thing that art does that really calls to me is its story telling. Art in itself can pass down the story of an artists sadness, happiness, struggle and so much more in something as simple as a brush stroke or photograph. Although there are many artists that have molded art as a whole an example being Michelangelo or Rembrandt the artist that has influenced my work the most has been Vincent Van Gogh. Van Gogh continues to influence my work as well as my work ethic to this day solely because I find so much of myself in his life story.
The question of whether or not Confucianism is a religion has been explored by many writers. Its religious status has been controversial in intellectual circles since the controversy of the Chinese rites of 17th century. There have been several attempts to define the religious character of Confucianism. The arguments by Matteo Ricci that the church should accommodate ancestor worship by Christians of Chinese origin because he considered it veneration and not a true worship was the beginning of Confucianism as a religious model (Tucker, 1998).
In my practice as a supervisor in the Kenya National Examination Council (2007) Secondary Examination briefing on conduct and ways of curbing exam cheating, I rose to ask the participants made of among others, quality Assurance and Standards officers, supervisors, invigilators, security officers and the District Education office personnel, whether other than the common use of the SMS to transmit messages as a source of cheating, how much do they know about blue tooth gadget? The response left a lot to be desired as virtually less than 5% of the participants had a vague idea of what this is and its capability in being used in exam cheating. This is just but a technological issue on exam cheating.